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About 80,000 music fans are expected to attend this month’s Firefly Music Festival in Dover and traffic officials are confident that last year’s severe traffic problems will not be repeated. The crowd estimate was given Friday afternoon Firefly’s production company, Chicago-based Red Frog Events. (And earlier version of this article quoted Michael Tatoian, chief operating

Three weeks before a crowd of up to 80,000 music fans descend on Dover, the Firefly Music Festival released the complete 2014 schedule. The Wednesday afternoon announcement sent fans rushing to tease out any major conflicts among their favorite acts. Nearly every day has its own high-profile match-up, which is expected given the number of

Single-day tickets for this year’s Firefly Music Festival in Dover are on sale now. Tickets cost $49 for Thursday and $99 each for Friday through Sunday. You can grab’em here. Timed to the ticket sale, we also got a better breakdown about who plays when. Here are some of the bigger names from each day:

As tickets went back on sale for this summer’s Firefly Music Festival in Dover on Tuesday, festival officials announced a pair of new acts and released part of each day’s schedule. Indie rock act Broken Bells — the collaboration between The Shins’ James Mercer and Danger Mouse — was added to the 108-band roster. Big

It was about a month ago when we realized that one of bands slated for this summer’s Firefly Music Festival seemed like a mirage. The band, named Bleachers, had no Facebook page. There was no Twitter account. Actually, there was no web site of any kind. And when we contacted Firefly about who the band

Out of the 106 bands announced last week for this year’s four-day Firefly Music Festival, there is only one without a Twitter or Facebook account. Actually, the band Bleachers cannot be found anywhere on the expansive world wide web. And ask Firefly organizers about what the band is and the best you’ll be able to

Four-day Firefly Music Festival early bird passes went on sale at noon today with festival organizers mostly dodging ticket snafus that entangled a pair of on-sales last year. Today’s on-sale was not without its hiccups. Some festival-goers reported getting error messages early and for a time the festival’s new payment plan option was not working.

Alternative rocker Beck has been added to the 2014 Firefly Music Festival lineup, the festival announced Friday evening. The singer-songwriter has a new album, “Morning Phase,” coming out Feb. 25 and has just released a new video about it – featuring vinyl records and equipment – on his website. Beck will be one of 100-plus

After years of being spotted by surprised fans during his annual vacations in Rehoboth Beach, Dave Grohl will finally perform in Delaware this summer on the state’s biggest stage. His rock band, 11-time Grammy winner Foo Fighters, will headline Firefly Music Festival in Dover on the first weekend of the summer alongside the reunited hip-hop

Before the new year, there was plenty of news coming out of Dover’s Firefly Music Festival, which is still five months away. First came word that the festival would expand to four days and five nights for early-birds looking to avoid last year’s traffic jams – a move that organizers hope will help alleviate the